Serious Game Classification

Patton Strikes Back: The Battle of the Bulge Chris Crawford Games (U.S.A.), Brøderbund Software (U.S.A.), 1991  

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Classification

RETRO SERIOUS GAME
(Edugame)

Keywords

Educational - Historical - History - Real-time - Strategy

Purpose

Besides play, this title features the following intents:
  • Educative message broadcasting

Market

This title is used by the following domains:
  • Entertainment
  • Education

Audience

This title targets the following audience:
 Age : 12-16 / 17-25 / 8-11
General Public

Gameplay

The gameplay of this title is Game-based
(designed with stated goals)

The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
AVOID : explanation of this brick MATCH : explanation of this brick DESTROY : explanation of this brick MANAGE : explanation of this brick MOVE : explanation of this brick SELECT : explanation of this brick SHOOT : explanation of this brick
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Patton Strikes Back: The Battle of the Bulge In the wargame you can play as Americans or Germans on famous World War 2 battlefield - the Battle of the Bulge. Before the battle begins you can research visible enemy troops, choose your troops, show them preferred movement direction, and choose mode (attack, defence, etc.). After that the game begins in real-time. You can pause it in any time to request supplies and change your orders. Also the game has a historical documentation on events of this battle. [source:mobygames]

Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : PC (Dos)

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